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Thursday, 20 October 2016

Grass petrol

The carbohydrate in grasses seems to
be (C(H2O))7H. All the fossil fuels in the
world were made by bubbling geothermal water through plant and animal
carbohydrates. These go up to ((CH2O))18H. So
(C(H2O))nH.

When we pass high pressure steam over
carbohydrates, we break the hydrogen bond, and the carbohydrates
breaks down into hydrocarbon.

1 (C(H2O))nH+H2Os->CnHm+H2O+n/2O2+H

This is an explosive gas.
So only copper tubing. We use the surplus O and H to produce a hot
flame. That drives a small turbine. That powers a pump to
recirculate the steam.

We also drive a Carnot system, that
produces hydrocarbon, plus excess oxygen, with a little H. We use a
semi permeable membrane to separate the H, and use a little O, to
produce a mad hot flame.

The rest of the O has high commercial
use – and engineering applications. So the steam has cracked the
carbohydrates into hydrocarbons – just like the deep earth did.

If we want a higher C number of the
fuel (diesel is 12, petrol 16) we pass the light fuel oil over
honeycomb Ti catalysts – so we can make petrol – from grass
butting – we burn today.

A simple one to do, is use the wheat
stem, after we have separated the wheat kernels. Instead of burning
them, we pass high pressure steam through them. We get off
'sweetened' fuel oil.

The sugars are long chain
hydrocarbons, so will produce heavier hydrocarbons. The sugar is
broken apart by the steam.

So we can produce diesel oil from farm
waste. All the brass we burn today, we turn into bio-fuels. Which
only release the CO2 the plants have taken in during the
growing year. So bio-fuels count as carbon 0.

So we use our waste to produce diesel
and petrol – and save the planet. So no more Fossil Fuels burning.
We grow our own petrol every year.

Just think the UK wastes 15 million
tonnes of grass a year. A little steam injector, and a family can
make their own petrol. City Parks can be major petrol suppliers.